Latest academic and research activities by Professor Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI during his visit to Lithuania

Professor Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI, Chairholder of the European Civilization Chair at the Natolin (Warsaw) campus of the College of Europe, visited Lithuania between 16 and 18 September 2015.

He met students of political science and history at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas on 16 September 2015. He gave a talk about "Political Priorities and Career Opportunities in European Studies since the 1948 Hague Congress: Bruges – Florence – Natolin" and engaged in a spirited question and answer session.

 

The following day Professor BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI delivered the keynote lecture to the international conference organized by Vytautas Magnus University on The Dynamics of Lithuanian-Polish Relations: Co-operation in the EU. The text of his lecture, on the theme of "Lithuania and Poland in the Last Millennium: Between the Margins and the Heart of Europe", can be accessed here. Later he was one of the panellists, alongside the former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas VALIONIS and the leading political scientist Professor Algis KRUPAVIČIUS in a lively discussion on "What sort of European Union do we dream about? The United States of Europe or a federation of independent states?".

 

On 18 September 2015, Professor BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI gave a paper on "Challenges for the Commonwealth: The Counsel of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" to the conference The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: Challenges – Achievements – Losses, held in the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius. He emphasized that the challenge to modern European civilization mounted by Rousseau, especially in his Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne (1771) remain relevant today.